http://www.ubernubby.com/articles.php?article_id=5
What do you do when your significant other has a mistress; not a flesh and blood one that you could hypothetically hunt down and run over with your car, but an electronic one that occupies most of his free time? Namely, his computer and his RPG’s. Imagine for a moment that the person you love comes home everyday and tells his computer how beautiful she is, and yes it is a SHE, while he barely has time to throw a hasty “hi” over his shoulder to you. The majority of his free time is devoted to his games, it borders on an addiction; if you can actually get him out of the house, you only have an hour or so before he starts getting antsy and twitchy, muttering under his breath that he must get back to her…
If you understand what I am talking about then you have my fullest sympathies, as I am sure I have yours. If you do not, you never will, unless you happen to fall in love with a computer geek, in which case, you will have my sympathies then. But getting back to the dilemma, what do you do? The old adage comes to mind “if you can’t beat them, join them”, so I figured it’d give it a try. Small problem thought, I have absolutely no natural talent when it comes to that vital RPG necessity, hand-eye coordination…as in NONE!!! Plus, I’m way too high strung to be killing people, even imaginary people, it might prove disastrous next time I’m out and about and some dumbass driver pisses me off; might just cross the blurry real world/RPG line and end up being some scary butch lady’s special friend…
So, continuing with the search for a game that I can actually play, that might give me a tenuous link, even if it is just a virtual one, to my fiancé, I found puzzle games. The puzzle game genre is perfect for me, it clicks with the way my brain works and it helps with the high strung-ness! I can get on the computer and match away, I get in the zone and there isn’t a puzzle that can stand in my way, in this realm I am even better than the fiancé who has been attached to the computer for 15 years…he tired to show me up, but I wiped the floor with him. I finally came to a place where I could understand the allure of loosing yourself in an alternate world where there are no annoying co-workers, deadlines, problems, just a puzzle to solve for me and people/monsters to kill for him. And then I finished the game. Cradle of Rome, it was a fabulous game. Basically you build Rome, from the ground up, first you get peasants (they were so cute toiling away at building me my civilization!), then priests and senators and eventually when Rome is all built you can challenge the mythical gods for control of Olympus. Not only did I challenge them, I wiped the floor with them too!!! And then I realized that it was over. There really is no point in starting over, I know the story, I know that the peasants I get will toil, and that the senators will give speeches, so what now?
Now, I am back to square one. My fiancé is spending all his time with his electronic mistress and I cannot find a new game that I like. The graphics suck, or the story line is redundant; I’m starting to worry that the newness of the experience has worn off. Maybe I wont be able to find another game that strikes my fancy, and then I will have lost that little bit of understanding that I gained, my tenuous connection. But now I know what I’m missing! So not only will I be jealous of an electronic mistress that occupies the majority of my fiancés time, but I’ll be jealous of him because he always manages to find a new game to play! What’s a girl to do?
-D. Meller
who cares? i stopped reading after the first paragraph
Sun Jul 27 2008 12:02AM Reportlol sad
Sun Jul 27 2008 12:10AM Reportlol i have to agree, though i'd direct the "lol sad" towards the man.
Hell I know I suffer from a case of tunnel vision when I get into a game, but I can snap myself out of that no problem, as well as a few others that know me lol.
Sun Jul 27 2008 12:22AM Reportthat guy is clearly addicted. hell when it comes down to computer vs wife/girlfriend the girl wins hands down. i've yanked both the power and internet cables out of the wall a few times for my girl and i have no doubt it will happen again :)
Sun Jul 27 2008 1:02AM ReportBeing a guy that spends way too much time with his games and not nearly enough with his girl, i found this story to be very true of most new age relationships. there are plenty of games that you can find that may appeal to a person such as yourself, i find that puzzle gamers tend to enjoy the Roller Coaster Tycoon series, i have bought all of them as presents for my mother, so this might be a good place to look. also you might find it more likely to find more intersting games on the Nintendo Wii then you will for your computer, as most computer games tend towards violence.
Sun Jul 27 2008 2:32AM ReportBeing a video game addict myself and a girl who is dating the same type of video game addict such as myself...I have to say if you strut around the house naked and he's more interested in the game...move on....if he would rather game than plan for a honeymoon without his computer for awhile....move on....hell if he isn't even interested to go to the casino and have a few drinks while gambling because he needs to game then ..move on..with the millions and billions of other men out there I'm sure you'll be happier to find one that can include you into his life. I agree with Death1942 as well....the person you come home to should always win when it comes to a battle with the computer....That doesn't mean that computer games should be entirely ruled out, just moderately played compared to living in the "real world" since it is causing conflicts...
Sun Jul 27 2008 3:39AM ReportWell im kind of like that, i enjoy the computer alot and dont like going out much, although when you start calling your computer a she and calling it beautiful? thats sick man, whack shit.
Sun Jul 27 2008 6:28AM ReportIn checking your profile Nubs, I see that you're a dude. The next time that you copy / paste from (your?) the ubernubby website you may want to place a disclaimer of some sort. ;)
a.) The original writer is either exaggerating or they are walking a fine line between "understanding" and "enabling". If not exaggerating, then the guy will not change without (possibly professional) help.
b.) If exaggerating, zex93555 has good suggestions for the original writer.
Good luck in either case.
Sun Jul 27 2008 9:34AM ReportThis is actually my Fiance's article. I asked her to write me something about casual gaming and she ended up writing this piece of work. To a certain extent she is exagerating. I game a lot. However, I used to be worse. The thing is noone here understands the context of our relationship and the changes it has gone through over the past 12 years. Yup that is correct, we have been dating for about 12 years. and been engaged for the last two. Our relationship is a story in istself that I can't really explain here because besides being extremely personal in nature, it would simply take too long.
Am I addicted to games? Yes. Do games take precedence over my family? No way. Ask any of the guys I play games with on Pker.org and they will be the first to tell you that I typically cannot play for extended periods of time beause I get constantly interupted to do things with my family.
It's just an article... take it with a grain of salt.
Sun Jul 27 2008 11:33AM ReportIf you're so boring that a guy would rather play a game, then uhh, it's your malfunction just as much as it is his. When my wife was alive and she wanted my attention she could get it no matter how deep into a game I was in.
She was also smart enough to take an interest in some of the things I was interested in. Eventually I got interested in her stuff to,, but that was usually after she stole the computer from me so she could go blow shit up.
Seriously though, people that dive headlong into their computer games are bored shitless with real life, and if you're being ignored, well then I'm pretty sure you can figure it out from there.
Sun Jul 27 2008 12:30PM ReportI wounder will technologie in the future be abel to replace the relationship between man and women? It seems like todays game industry already making there first steps, in that direction.
Sun Jul 27 2008 1:40PM ReportI used to be in that position. Exactly like that.
But before the mistress named UO (his first MMO-love) was the mistress named Magic:The Gathering, which he played at a shop, not at home. He'd be gone all day long, all weekend long. At least computer games happen at home!
Anyway, I was an IRC rat years before UO came along, and after a few days of being a MMO-widow, I managed to find a way to transfer my love of chatting into a love of online games. Then we played together! Woo!
Sun Jul 27 2008 3:48PM Reportget back in the kitchen lulz
Sun Jul 27 2008 11:09PM ReportMMORPG.com writes:
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